DENVER (CBSDC/AP)  Ratcheting up pressure for Congress to limit access to guns, President Barack Obama said Wednesday that recent steps by Colorado to tighten its gun laws show there doesnt have to be a conflict between keeping citizens safe and protecting Second Amendment rights to gun ownership.

I believe there doesnt have to be a conflict in reconciling these realities, Obama said in Denver, where he stepped up his call for background checks for all gun purchases and renewed his demand that Congress at least vote on banning assault weapons and limiting access to large-capacity ammunition magazines.

There doesnt have to be a conflict between protecting our citizens and protecting our Second Amendment rights, he said.

Obama noted that more than 100 days have passed since the shooting rampage that killed 20 first-graders and six adults at an elementary school in Newtown, Conn., and reignited the national debate over access to guns.

Every day that we wait to do something about it even more of our fellow citizens are stolen from our lives by a bullet from a gun. Now the good news is Colorado has already chosen to do something about it, he said.

Obama also spoke about the people who say the government is coming after their guns.

You hear some of these quotes: I need a gun to protect myself from the government. We cant do background checks because the government is going to come take my guns away, Obama said. Well, the government is us. These officials are elected by you. They are elected by you. I am elected by you. I am constrained, as they are constrained, by a system that our Founders put in place.

What an arrogant bass turd he is. The Founding Fathers put that system in place only for that reason. To “constrain” lowlifes like Soetoro from taking total control of OUR country. It’s OUR fault if we allow him to do it.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

At no time does Obama (or any other person in power for that matter) say to himself, “I can’t do this, the Constitution doesn’t allow it, or specifically denies it.” He says to himself (as all those in power have), “I’m going to do this and see if anybody stops me. And I will push the envelope just as far as I can.”

Parchment barriers do not constrain anyone. Power is checked only by power. The president’s power is constrained by either the congress or the supreme court saying “he can’t do that. Even if he did, pay absolutely no attention” The people also can say the same thing, we will pay no attention to you because you have no authority to do so. And we will use our guns against you if you try to enforce your unlawful acts.

But remove the people’s abiltity to use force against their own rulers, or remove their ability to remove them from office, and indeed, there is nothing to constrain power.

Could you provide the sourcing and copyright info for that mural of BHO? It is very good and I would like to use it. I have been looking at each character and symbol in it for forty min! This is a great piece and the artist should be praised.

IIRC, assault weapons are already banned for sale/possession w/o special licenses. Would someone please define these guns and explain to that congressgal that clips are reloadable. One of the biggest dangers we face is totally stupid congress critters. Secondly we should fear those who would choose to turn our form of government into a socialist state.

I Am Constrained By A System That Our Founders Put In Place is becoming more of a burden than the 0 thought. BUT, I still believe he will plot something (crisis) that he can twist to allow him to stay in office.

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posted on 04/04/2013 8:49:25 AM PDT
by chooseascreennamepat
(It only takes one to start hostilities. It takes two to agree to end them.)

Yes, you kenyan vulture, the founders recognized that stinking (stale BO), stupid tyrants required a system of checks, restraints, and divisions to prevent criminals in leadership positions from becoming robber barons and killers of innocent citizens.

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posted on 04/04/2013 8:52:30 AM PDT
by Neoliberalnot
(Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unarmed.)

Obummer, it was asshats like you who created the so-called “gun free” zones where most of the killings you’re ranting about are taking place. As for the inner cities, you and your ilk are too frightened to go after the gangbangers and put them out of business.

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posted on 04/04/2013 8:53:16 AM PDT
by NRA1995
(I'd rather be a living "gun culture" member than a dead anti-gun candy-ass.)

Constraints? Are you freaking kidding me? He knows no constraint. He does whatever he wants done by Executive Order and oppressively burdensome regulation. What he meant to say is, “I have not been appointed President for life yet with the ability to rewrite the ‘charter of negative liberties’ that I detest with every fiber if my being.”

What a scum sucking, Marxist, piece of human excrement.

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posted on 04/04/2013 8:59:30 AM PDT
by cashless
(Obama told us he would side with Muslims if the political winds shifted in an ugly direction. Ready?)

Provo artist Jon McNaughton is back with a new painting, ‘The Forgotten Man,’ which features President Barack Obama standing on the Constitution.

In the new painting, a man, sitting in the throes of depression on a park bench in front of a White House, is seen surrounded by 43 presidents. On the other side, Obama is standing on the Constitution ignoring the depressed man while James Madon pleading Obama not to stand on the Constitution.

The painting also features discarded dollar bills and scraps of paper with individual constitutional amendments scrawled onto them.

Initially, the painting was released in 2010 and has resurfaced, causing a stir when it appeared on MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow’s blog for caption contest.

McNaughton also uploaded a video on YouTube which shows him painting the canvas with a soundtrack that follows a movie trailer.

For a long time I didn’t know if I wanted to paint this picture, because I worried it might be too controversial. This man on the park bench represents every man, woman, and child who is an American... he hopes to find the American dream of happiness and prosperity, McNaughton said in the voiceover.

But now because of unconstitutional acts imposed by the American people by our government we stand on the precipice of disasters, he added.

I don’t place all the blame on Obama. On my website I try to explain what each president has done, he said. The thing I like about the painting is that it does get people talking.

His father was a hardcore Marxist (as well as a professional student, bigamist and mean drunk).
BHO Sr. wrote a paper on taxing people at —drumroll please—100%.
“Dreams FROM My Father”: Hussein is channeling pappy. Oh, and his mommy was a commie ... the rotten apple don’t fall far from the tree.

Damn right he’s ‘constrained’- and he’s working like mad to destroy those contraints. That pesky thing called The Constitution. That is all that stands between him and dictatorship. Oh-that and the US military-and they are being prepped to turn against the people.

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posted on 04/04/2013 9:29:46 AM PDT
by ClearBlueSky
(When anyone says its not about Islam...it's about Islam. That death cult must be eradicated.)

Slyfox, you are correct that one should read that several times in order to place it in proper historical perspective and to distinguish what he is saying from statements of early Presidents such as those quoted below:

By the Founders' formula, "the People's" written Constitution was the anchor of our liberties, binding government to the "People's" limitations on its power.

Today's so-called "progressive" philosophy, in effect, undoes all the monumental work accomplished by the Founders on behalf of liberty and leaves the law afloat and without anchor, relying, as of old, on mere men and women who wish to operate outside the "constraints" of the document they are sworn to honor and uphold.

From Page xv of "Our Ageless Constitution," allow me to include here excerpted words from President Andrew Jackson's Proclamation of December 10, 1832:

"We have received it [the Constitution] as the work of the assembled wisdom of the nation. We have trusted to it as to the sheet anchor of our safety in the stormy times of conflict with a foreign or domestic foe. We have looked to it with sacred awe as the palladium of our liberties, and with all the solemnities of religion have pledged to each other our lives and fortunes here and our hopes of happiness hereafter in its defense and support. Were we mistaken, my countrymen, in attaching this importance to the Constitution . . .? No. We were not mistaken. The letter of this great instrument is free from this radical fault. . . . No, we did not err! . . . The sages . . . have given us a practical and, as they hoped, a permanent* Constitutional compact. . . . The Constitution is still the object of our reverence, the bond of our Union, our defense in danger, the source of our prosperity in peace: it shall descend, as we have received it, uncorrupted by sophistical construction, to our posterity. . . ."

*Underlining added for emphasis

And, it was Thomas Jefferson who used another metaphor with reference to the Constitution when he indicated that "the People" must "bind them (government) by the chains of the Constitution." In another instance, he declared: "It was intended to lace them up straitly within the enumerated powers. . . ."

Thomas Jefferson did not confuse his identity as citizen, when not in public office, with his role as President when being a servant of "the People." The Preamble's phrase, "We, the People," applies to what Justice Story, in his "Commentaries on the Constitution . . . ." called "the only keepers of the Constitution." Further, Justice Story warned us of our duties and responsibilities in that "keeper" role in his final paragraphs of that volume:

". . . Let the history of the Grecian and Italian republics warn us of our dangers. The national constitution is our last, and our only security. United we stand; divided we fall.

"If these Commentaries shall but inspire in the rising generation a more ardent love of their country, an unquenchable thirst for liberty, and a profound reverence for the constitution and the Union, then they will have accomplished all, that their author ought to desire. Let the American youth never forget, that they possess a noble inheritance, bought by the toils, and sufferings, and blood of their ancestors; and capable, if wisely improved, and faithfully guarded, of transmitting to their latest posterity all the substantial blessings of fife, the peaceful enjoyment of liberty, property, religion, and independence. The structure has been erected by architects of consummate skill and fidelity; its foundations are solid; its compartments are beautiful, as well as useful; its arrangements are full of wisdom and order; and its defences are impregnable from without. It has been reared for immortality, if the work of man may justly aspire to such a title. It may, nevertheless, perish in an hour by the folly, or corruption, or negligence of its only keepers, THE PEOPLE. Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people, in order to betray them." - Justice Joseph Story - "Commentaries on the Constitution"

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